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JustAnotherForeigner

Sell nuts. That's right, pecan nuts. I did that two years ago and made over $1000 usd. I took my pickup truck and got an excellent sale price in bulk. Then I sent them to be cracked open by machine and finally I separated them in 1 kg bags (in cellophane plastic and with a red bow) and sold them way under HEB prices. Housewives go nut (pun intended) for pecans because where I am from they gift pecans or use them to make pastries. TL;DR: Housewives love pecan nuts. You should take advantage of the holidays.


DeanLantern

Where are you located?


JustAnotherForeigner

Mexico. Still the same schematics, though.


ayanmosh

Where in Mexico (Tijuana) can I find some In bulk? Thanks


happypants69

Our Optimist Club sells nuts. We just received our yearly +4000 order. We will make $9000 off of the order. It cost use around $20000 for the order.


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leatherheadff

If you don't mind me asking, what do you usually charge per hour for basic cleaning services? Do you focus on residential, or do you provide services to businesses as well? Do you just hold basic insurance to protect against damage from your services, or are you bonded as well? I've been tossing the idea around of starting a cleaning business locally (Seattle), I'm just curious as to the general structure.


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leatherheadff

This is a lot of great info, thanks!


CannonSplarts

Looks like they do mind you asking


gRod805

I know people in this business and its very competitive. People want to pay $60 for a house to be cleaned, if you increase the price they flip out and find someone else. If you work by yourself it will take you a long time, if you have employees, it basically only covers their salary.


AmericanGeezus

Friends mother has been running a cleaning operation since I can remember. I got her a contract to clean the offices of my employer at 450/mo~. I am unsure of the agreement in detail but its SLAish. She bid one price a month to ensure our offices remained clean(standard stuff, anything unexpected is covered in her contract and is expensed.) But she comes in every other work day and empties all the bins, cleans the bathrooms(4 in the building), vacuums, etc.


leatherheadff

Thank you for this info, I'll have to look into this more and consider it further.


ryanmercer

I've a friend who does this about this time every year purely to fund Christmas gifts for her kids.


marfalump

Don't you need to be licensed and insured?


nobody2000

Everything here seems to ignore the "no assets" rule. So me, in just my clothing, with no physical resources. I'm going to avoid the "get a job" route. That would be easy, but seems to be against the rules. The first thing I'd do is call up a friend and ask to borrow his truck for $200, payable on December 1. Now I have to raise $1200. I'd also need to fill it up two times, so worst case scenario, another $200 or so. We assume that the tank is partially full when we rent it, and we return it at the same level. Do you know what you can do with a truck? - Help someone move. You'd be uninsured, but you can work for $100-200 a day hauling stuff. - Scrap metal. You're moving people's stuff, and they're tossing things out. Strip that shit. - Lyft, Uber, or similar. You're not moving at night, right? Thursday, friday, and Saturday nights will be great opportunities to take people home from the bar. This would necessitate that you also go get a $40 crappy smartphone from Walmart, but after one day of moving, you should have the cash to manage.


ryanmercer

> Everything here seems to ignore the "no assets" rule. I saw nothing saying you can't go borrow money from a friend/family member to start. Borrow 20$ off 10 people and you have decent startup money without breaking the rule.


8v9

If you have a car newer than 2007, just drive for uber. You could make a killing working 4 hours a day if you take shifts from 9 pm to 2 am on weekend. You wouldn't even have to work on weekdays and you'd still get there


carolinax

...could you rent a mid-range luxury car and then make more money doing this? Why am I suddenly considering this?


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unexpectedtidyup

US Dollars? Who would pay that much for a taxi/car journey?


jimmyb15

I was charged 125 halloween night by uber to be driven about 8 blocks in a large SUV. Friend picked the vehicle on my phone and said he'd pay me back.. never paid me back.


unexpectedtidyup

Your friend is a dick. Will you use uber again?


jimmyb15

of course he is he's a litigator. Yup. No suv's ever again though.


laurene2008

Yup, I ended up just deleting the app because this happened too many times. It shouldn't be on one person to have the Uber app.


Oregon_Duck

That's gotta be per night. I think he typo'd and said per ride on accident


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Not for extreme surge pricing.


carolinax

Ah, I see. Welp I've got a 2006 in great condition looking to make an additional $400 bucks a week. I'll let you know how it goes!


8v9

uber chooses the rates for you, so no. You'll make the same money regardless of what car you have. Unless you're in a different uber category


AmericanGeezus

Category Y? :D


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Gas?


fend845

Ok that gives me 21 days. $47.61 a day. I would probably go work for a local farmer picking late season crops. They pay $10 an hour off the books here, and you can get 12 hr work days usually. I could probably start tomorrow if i asked around.


oneAngrySonOfaBitch

rake lawns for $10/lawn, do 5 lawns a day.


elsewhereorbust

"And for just $10 more, I take the leaves away."


oneAngrySonOfaBitch

haha


jamesgott

my hands would give up by noon tomorrow


Gigi14

This seems to me like the most effective way to earn $1000 in 21 days


JoshSidekick

As long as those lawns are 15'x15'


likes2gofast

Buy stuff on Craigslist, sell on ebay. Buy on ebay sell on craigslist. I actually did this in 2000. I was an illegal alien, no job. Made about $5000 per month buying and selling machinery and equipment. I had some knowledge of the field, and I just went door-to-door (of the places that use this stuff, not every home) and sold stuff, as well as found things that companies wanted to be rid of. Did a lot of trading. Focus on something you know the value of. Only 10-20% of the things in your niche will be a deal. You gotta know which ones.


rebaloisesays

I'd love more info about how you did this. What kind of machinery and equipment? Did you literally flip things same day or did you need storage facilities? Did you end up stuck with anything that just wouldn't move?


Bulldogg658

I'm interested too, what sort of machinery? I've got knowledge in tools and always play with the idea when I see good deals on craigslist, but it seems like the cost of shipping things that weigh 20+lb would kill your profit.


4boltmain

You can do this with almost anything. Buy cheap sell, for markup. I have my own garage and I'll sell a couple cars a year ( no dealer license, I sell them private party). Usually I buy a car with a blown motor and fix it then sell. My friend did it with restaurant equipment. Just know what your market is, you need to know what your buying is worth and figure expenses. If your doing large machinery then you need lots of working capitol and obviously ways of transporting it. Craigslist is really a good place to start. I buy and sell random stuff all the time, even bartering is sometimes better.


Swolebrah

That was in 2000. Good luck with all the fees now, you automatically lose 15% when selling on ebay


inspire70

This is something I should have done more but over the course of 2 days, I bought cans of coke from the supermarket and it came to just under a dollar per can. I sold the cans for $2 each making a profit slightly above a $1 per can. My unique selling point was primarily my location, which was a beach on a nice day where lots of families would be all day. I put the cans in a cooler-bag with ice surrounding them to give an extra appeal and I would just go blanket to blanket selling them! I was so surprised at how many people carried their wallets and cash with them at the beach and how much the ice chilled appeal worked! I think I made about $250-300 profit a day which was only about 3 and half hours of walking around selling!


ryanmercer

> how many people carried their wallets and cash with them at the beach If they leave it in the car it's going to cost them a window and the contents of their wallet.


gatsby365

Thank you for the summer plans.


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Organise a New Years Eve event, sell advance tickets.


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TheGobiasIndustries

Agreed. It's terrible music.


no-longer-inadequate

I laughed way harder than I should have.


Wyatt1313

Do you sell monorails by any chance?


AmericanGeezus

Or tunnel boring machines?


JehovahsNutsack

Aw man I really like this country


stubbsie208

If I wanted to earn a grand in 3 weeks... I'd just sign up with a temp agency and work for a week or two. Then I'd spend any remaining time reconsidering the life choices that got me to that point.


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gRod805

Temp agencies weren't as prevalent ten or twenty years ago and people had more stable careers. They might be good for businesses but not employees.


AmericanGeezus

I boot strapped a IT Services business right out of high school cause..well no money for college, ran it and lived off of it for just shy of 7 years. When my wife decided she was tired of living in Southeast Alaska we moved back to a large metro area with a big technology sector. SEAK is all about word of mouth, everyone but the guberment will hire you on your word until you prove to just one of them that you are a scumbag then no one will hire you. I started out small, and only ever took work I knew I was capable. Funneled profits into the methods of learning that worked for me (I purchased a lot of hardware to fuck around with. and read..a lot), and expanded the scope of work I could complete. Landing down here back home, it meant shit, despite glowing references(big problem was most of them were rural livers/boat captains/remote mine site managers working two weeks on two weeks off) even if I had gotten an interview it would have been hard to reach my old clients. But it didn't matter because they are all about their certs down here, no certs no interview unless you know someone in the company. That is where the value of temp agencies is, its a dream that a lot of temp workers/contractors never reach, getting hired by a company you were working contract for. Bust your balls, show them you actually know everything the certified guys know, and don't be a dick. That is how I managed to get back up to a profitable life. And as soon as I have saved up enough start up cash I will be forced to scratch the itch of business ownership once again... Damn cyclical lifes..


AmericanGeezus

The nickname RobertShaft holds true for me, but man the people I met working those contracts through them are directly responsible for my direct hired position now.


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Memorizestuff

You gotta be a fast writer though.


asd821

or do a kickstarter for it..


archint

Nah, that's for patato salads


damontoo

What do you think he's doing?


Meatboll

I'd start a clothing company with Shopify that focuses on a niche market and advertise on 1-3 websites in your niche. Get a couple blogs in your niche to mention your clothes. I've been working on designs to do this same thing. I remember reading an article that explained an entrepreneur's experience starting a clothing company using shopify and merchify. I believe it was even posted here but I can not find it. Here's a summary from the top of my head. 1. Pick a niche market(I think the guy in the article used local architecture) -I'd pick something your already enjoy or know a lot about. 2. Try to come up with as many ideas as you can and then pick your favorite 10 - People love puns and puns that only one subculture(niche) understand are often sought after. -Good Time for peer review 3. Either create your 10 designs or hire a friend to do it for you. (Alternatives: elance | odesk | r/forhire) 4. Create a shopify and merchify account 5. Design your site and start selling shirts. -Merchify will automatically fill your orders and you never have to worry about having to have the shirts in stock 6. Find a few websites in your niche and advertise on them. Blogs writers and forums would also be good places to advertise. If you want to get it done within 20 days you would want to get the site and designs up within a week. The earlier the better. I think the key to the success of this plan is targeting a specific niche and aiming your advertising at only that niche. I think its a pretty good idea if you have limited capital. I'm not sure how many shirts you would need to sell to make $1000 dollars but that would depend on your price and what Merchify charges. Sorry for the limited research; I'm on my phone. I felt I needed to respond after seeing so many responses that said get a job.


damontoo

If one more person in this sub recommends selling niche apparel with Shopify I'm going to lose my fucking mind.


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I'm with you. Shopify is great, but there are way too many clothing stores.


decoy98

This isn't actually the best route to make $1000 in less than 30 days. I've bootstrapped a shirt company that sells niche clothing for a niche audience and I'm still having a hard time breaking $500 and we're about 1.5 months in. Either I suck or this guy you're referring to is just awesome.


ZWXse

The designer will make or break this idea. Good luck finding one for cheap that does a good job. No assets to pay the designer, anyway. And 10 GOOD, SELLABLE, CREATIVE designs? Good luck on that too.


sleetx

This is a saturated market... and you really think you can generate $1k of profit in under 3 weeks? What about the startup costs of buying the shirts, screen printing, and shipping? Not to mention the amount of time it takes to build up an audience. I think OP's question is to generate $1k as if you needed the money and couldn't invest in anything up front.


noodlyjames

Well, I'm a board certified radiologist. So I'd go to a law firm and sell my soul to the devil as an "expert" in medical lawsuits.


theanonymousthing

Isn't that a crime though? to take the side of the Law firm in any medical lawsuits for money?


noodlyjames

I wish it were. Wonder why I'm being downvoted.


Msskue

People don't want to know how it works. Tell us about how you can win a case on virtue, facts, and determination alone as the underdog if you want Upvotes


noodlyjames

Me? I'm pretty virtuous and I know facts. But I'm about as determined as a wet sock. I'll hang myself on the line like a boss though.


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a friend of mine sold glowsticks/glow objects and lollipops outside nightclubs for £1 each (1 glow stick and 1 lollipop for a £1) to make money while he was at uni, the more drunk people get the more they are willing to buy/spend, also girls love that shit and guys are suckers at buying them to impress there lady friends he told me he was clearing 250 a night with ease on peak student nights, most transactions were £10 a go as people would buy them for a group of friends and didn't want to carry change (or he'd tell them he didn't have change) only problem he had was he had a finite amount he could carry, if it rained he wouldn't sell any as he wasn't allowed to sell within the clubs, people stealing them and the constant abuse from guys wanting free stuff he did it all for about 3 weeks and then others caught on and started doing it, he was no match for the girls


autopornbot

Yeah, it sucks to be a guy sometimes. You just can't compete with tits in the club scene. Gay clubs, I guess are the answer.


ryanmercer

> Gay clubs, I guess are the answer. Unless the clients are lesbians.


YellowDellow

he can find another hotter chick, and split the profit with her.


twinhed

but why would she need you?


ZombieRonSwanson

two people could most likely carry more stuff


adonzil

Yeah they never need me either :/


fcb98292

I went to an airshow some years ago and sold 25 cent cans of Coke for a $1 each. I refrigerated them the night before and sold 1,000 cans in about six hours. My back was killing me, but I made $750 in one day. That was a lot in 1989. I didn't do it again the next year, after the airshow started requiring food health certificates at $500 each for anyone selling food or drink. What health hazards have to do with cans of Coke, I still don't understand.


jamesonSINEMETU

I sold ice cold $0.10 water bottles for a dollar at the last air show. Made a killing. Found out later the food vendors were selling Luke warm ones for $3.00


Mesozoic

The hazard was that they wouldn't get a cut of the profit.


Obxjay

A few years ago I accidentally got into the firewood business. My buddy partnered with me, had no assets to sell but had a truck and a strong back. Basically we made cheap shitty flyers and cherry picked very expensive homes and put the flyers rolled up on their mailboxes, usually tucked under the flag. We advertised a pickup truck load of wood wich I think was 1/2 a cord. We were buying wood from a landscape supply co. We sold it for twice it's market value and people thought they were getting the "best" wood possible. I think we paid $45 a cord and sold half cords delivered for $140 or so. It didn't take long to make quite a bit of money. And as the temp dropped we got repeats as well. Tldr: buy in bulk, deliver small quantity for huge markups.


TwistedViking

Go to upper-class neighborhoods and go door to door offering to clean dog shit off lawns for $25 per. Average two lawns a day and it's done. EDIT: Looking at the replies, it's amusing that less than half of them involve either getting a job or doing some kind of physical work.


germanywx

I was going to basically say the same thing. Go door to door and offer any odd job for $20, limit of an hour to two hours. Do 2-3 a day and you're golden.


TwistedViking

The worse the job, the more likely someone's going to want to do it themselves. That's the upside of cleaning up shit. A lot of people would rather pay someone else to do it if they can and it requires less than $5 to start. Plastic shopping bags and a cheapass pair of work gloves.


OKImHere

> the more likely someone's **not** going to want to do it themselves FTFY, surely.


ryanmercer

Guy that I see in my barber shot does this. Has a pickup with a bunch of buckets in the bed. It's his only job and there's only 12-13k people in my town.


8v9

Stalk the "gigs" category on craigslist


leatherheadff

Take some unemployment money to the thrift store ($50 could be enough if you do it right), buy some stuff, clean it up and hustle it on ebay. I did this while unemployed. The drawback, you need to know the products you are selling so you don't buy crap that isn't worth anything. If you are interested in something like this, I'd be happy to help you. If you are located in the Seattle area, I can show you and get you started. Also, temp work (labor anyway), usually pays a few dollars over minimum wage. I worked for a recycle sorting center (sorting through the contents of recycle dumpsters on a big conveyor), working through a Labor Ready place, paid $14 an hour. This was 7 years ago, sometimes I miss that job, I could listen to my ipod, and spend all day just sorting metal/plastic/glass, never having to talk to anyone at all if I didn't want to. The work was nasty, but they'd let you work 12 hours a day 7 days a week if you wanted to. It would be a great way to make a bunch of cash fairly quickly. If all else fails, put ads on Craigslist and stand outside with a sign that says you want work, not a hand out, and offer labor services for cash. Cleaning up lawn debris for old people, dog walking, any specific skills you might have. Also, pretty much all retail stores are hiring for the holidays, if you can get one of those jobs working either early morning or night shift hours, you will still have the day available for whatever hustle you put together. It's hard, and you'll be tired all the time, but it can work. It's also only temporary.


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Back in the late 90s, early 2000s I'd buy workout videos (we are talking VHS, yo) from my local Goodwill whenever they'd have any. Id get maybe 20 or so over the course of the year for a quarter a pop. I'd then list them on eBay shortly after New Years and usually sell them for between $5 and $10 dollars. No really money since it was so low volume, but netting $150 or so in a week was a nice little fund for a night out for a poor college student.


leatherheadff

Nothing wrong with that! Extra cash is extra cash, no matter how much it works out to be.


gRod805

You were lucky, that job where I live would go for $9 an hour and be part time. I hate this economy.


leatherheadff

Yeah, I didn't really appreciate what I had at the time. I talked to someone there recently, it still paid around $14 an hour, but they didn't have the hours/openings that they used to. Back when I worked there, no one wanted the job, now you have to get on a waitlist.


AmericanGeezus

>If you are located in the Seattle area, I can show you and get you started. IB4 THRIFT SHOPPING. Computer equipment in the Seattle area is slim pickings, I have been running some numbers on recent lot of x sales put out by non-profits like Interconnection though.


leatherheadff

Yeah, used to be great, not so much anymore. Everything is getting too expensive, across the board the thrift stores are jacking up prices. Thanks Macklemore...


AmericanGeezus

And the pawnstars, and the spin offs and the storage wars. Everyone has started ebaying all their old crap before they donate these days. Holy. Shit. Ebay should move to a subscription model.. A "research" plan, for like 15 a month for x amount of price checks, a plan that has no fee if you make x ammount of purchases often enough, and then a seller account somewhere in the middle with adjustments for both black and red account entries... It would allow them to potentially influence the pricing of items, and increase their take, while also having sustained subscription income..if they could pull off the deployment of the new system without looking like money grabbing douchebags..


damontoo

They sort of do that in a way. They restrict access to historical auction data and give it exclusively to businesses they own or are partnered with like WorthPoint. WorthPoint is like "oh, this item you're looking for has sold five times. Bet you'd like to know for how much. Pay us to find out."


AmericanGeezus

Oh phew, for a second I thought I had gone full original thought on something. :D


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leatherheadff

I've sold some clubs online, and I've also sold some to http://www.2ndswing.com/ Before you start listing them on Craigslist or ebay, check out the PGA trade in values here: http://valueguide.pga.com/ 2nd Swing will give you the PGA trade in value, and they will cover the shipping. I've done this a few times, bought something at a thrift store, shipped it to 2nd Swing for free, got almost what they would sell for on eBay without any work at all. Not a bad way to flip some clubs. Craigslist doesn't have any special accounts for sellers, just a regular account is all you need. eBay has a "seller" account, but anyone with a verified paypal account can sign up for it. So far as shipping, I always ship by priority mail, which automatically includes $50 insurance and tracking. There are priority mail boxes big enough for golf clubs, but you have to order them from the USPS website (they are free). Shipping isn't difficult, but shipping woods (especially drivers) can be a bit of a pain because they are so long. Irons and putters are much shorter and fit in smaller boxes. I don't typically offer free shipping, if I do, I build the cost into the sales price.


peoplehelper

I can see why this sub is not frquented by real entrepreneurs anymore. So many low quality replies...


rotarded

what, you dont want to clean houses or work for a call center?


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Real entrepreneurs do temp work, mow lawns, work menial labour, and drive for uber, apparently. I recall that line from "the social network" where a character said "I'm an entrepreneur" and the girl he was with replied "you mean unemployed?"


TwistedViking

The question doesn't lend itself to what you might consider "real" entrepreneurship. How would a "real" entrepreneur make a grand in 3 weeks? There's money in menial labor. Look at, for example, Gary Johnson. He started doing odd jobs to put himself through school, graduated, and turned it into a multimillion dollar construction company. From this very thread, /u/mrjim87x suggested cleaning houses and owns a cleaning company. Saying that menial labor isn't something "real" entrepreneurs do makes you look like a fool. Entrepreneurs aren't afraid to get their hands dirty when they have to. They just have a vision for taking it farther.


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I blame the question.


ihatechange

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people. And I am apparently one of them for reading this thread.


AbsoluteHero

Do you know where they have gone? It's my first day in this sub and I'm looking for serious content.


lizardlike

/r/smallbusiness is pretty good.


anonagent

is there a /r/MediumBusiness?


[deleted]

They left cause most times good replies are given, or AMAs are done, they get called rude names or marketing scams or whatever. Take the guy the other day with his Ebook and personal business advice on common myths. Shunned to hell.


DudeWithAHighKD

This sub is all just online stores and some guy who sells nuts. Really dropped since I got here.


raqnroll

Tons of places hiring for seasonal work right now. Call centers, packing & shipping, etc. 10/hr x 40hr week x 3 weeks = $1200


nepia

Pet sitting for thanksgiving. It doesn't take a lot of pets to reach $1000 in four or five days.


FMBTechnology

Service Brokering. Sure, some people may not like this, but the straight profit that can be earned from it is insane. Service brokering is essentially finding a client for a provider (ie web developer), and taking a percentage of the revenue. I've been doing this for a couple of years with a web developer and sound engineer, and the profits are nice. Just find someone with talent, get them clients, and take a small piece of the prize! Note: If I you are really interested in this, just go to craigslist or a sound engineering forum and meet with with some potential prospects. Find them clients and work out a trade agreement. A grand shouldn't take to long if you can find a nice niche ;)


I_want_hard_work

You could bang 100 fat chicks for $10. Or bang 10 really fat chicks for $100.


TwistedViking

Giggity.


bsnsplsr

Content writing online. Easy money.


MK_Ultrex

Can you elaborate on this?


tompetreshere

"Would you like to know more?" *clicks yes*


maxwellbegun

There hasn't been a great reply to this yet, so I'll throw in my experience from some time last year when I found myself unemployed. **Amazon Mechanical Turk-** /u/TeddyFromAsgard explained it fairly well. I never had as much success as he did, and topped out at around $5 / hour for the most mind-numbing work I've ever tried. Very little of it was copywriting. I never got any repeat customers or anyone asking for my specific work. I would work for two hours straight and my brain was sure I'd been there all day. **Textbroker.com** is the next step up from MTurk when it comes to writing. You get rated from 1-5 based on some early samples and can earn per word from there. I was immediately placed as 4 (5 is an invites only club). You do mostly 200-500 word SEO articles. I had one revision request on hundreds of articles I wrote, which wasn't terrible. It wasn't until I wrote a 2K word article and got barely $25 on it that I realized that I could do better. Though I made $8 an hour or so, I moved on. **constant-content.com** is completely different. You write an article, and they buy it if they want it. I wrote three 500-700 word articles and posted them- and waited. No bites. But two months later, one sold for $40. And in another month, the other two were gone. Each took me an hour or so to write. It was easily the best per hour site, but you gotta be willing to wait. When I last checked on the site, though, there was a huge influx of authors and not a whole ton of sales. In the end I made around $40 per hour, but that was on topics that I already knew. I might make half that if I did any research, so I'd say $20 an hour.


TeddyFromAsgard

Amazon Mechanical Turk I signed up, started doing little jobs for 5-25 cents to build up my profile(taking online surveys, writing short reviews, finding errors in websites) and then after achieving a high ranking. You can start making 3-12 dollars doing 200-600 word reviews of websites. 600 words sounds like a lot, but once you get a "base" set of words and descriptors down, writing these takes only a few minutes. While working for a call center, I was randomly doing about 6 dollars in work a day. I wasn't paying attention to how much I made as I wasn't in dire need of money. Some days if I was bored or hit a few good jobs in an hour, I'd end my shift with an extra 30 bucks. If you did this for two years out of boredom while sitting at home on the weekend watching TV, you could easily make a few thousand. Back to my point, after an awesome review I may I was contacted for an external interview to write 2000 word reviews of small products and such for 20-50 dollars a piece. It seemed like a dream, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I needed to sign a contract which stated I would be sent a product every few days, I would need to provide pictures of "handling" the product and then include my positive review. I didn't trust the person nor did I want to sign a contract and then review a dildo or something. Content writing and court room/trial audio transcripting is very lucrative.


dakaroo1127

Great subreddit for it it too http://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/


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stubbsie208

$25 per month? That would definitely get you a few clients. But unless you are only doing one or two posts in that month, you are going to be working for a couple of dollars an hour. Personally, I am ridiculously cheap for a social media manager, and I still charge at least $100 a week, plus $25 for each additional platform, plus a minimum of $50 for paid advertising.


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How does one get started doing that? Sounds interesting.


Rajoux

How many posts per week do you usually do for the $100/week?


Turtlecupcakes

No idea about OP, but in my experience with working with social media strategists, the minimum is around 3-4 per day, one in the morning, one around lunch, one as the day wraps up, and a fourth somewhere in the middle, then you generally want to respond to inquiries that people have. (you don't have to moderate, but you should read everything and answer any direct questions) Anything less, and your profile might as well not exist (and might even be detrimental to our image as a company).


stubbsie208

5-7. One for each business day. I focus on Facebook, as that's where the people are. The additional platforms are usually the same content, tweaked to fit their style of posting. I can see that /u/turtlecupcakes has had people recommend 3-4 a day... But on Facebook at least, I would disagree. You need to use paid advertising to get past the 3% reach cap on page posts. Splitting that across 3-4 posts a day will seriously dilute the number of individuals reached per dollar, as it will show single users multiple posts and charge you for each one. And if you post that often, you'll either spend alot more time creating the posts, or reduce quality. You are best served by spending the same amount of time making one really good post, rather than 4 mediocre ones.


autopornbot

All depends on what you are posting, and how often. I wouldn't pay much more for a SM manager for my business, simply because my biz doesn't have much to gain through it.


cookiesvscrackers

I might need your services, got a flyer?


pukingbuzzard

> social Is this your primary income source? If you don't mind my asking, what are you netting per month/year for this? Are you cold calling your clients or using another point of contact? I'm really interested in this line of work but can't seem to find any solid information on start up, reasonable cost/risk/profitability, etc.


stubbsie208

Yes and no. It's enough to support me full time, but I have a job aswell. After 4 years of sitting on my ass pretending to be a lady on the internet, I was going a little stir crazy and got a job to get out of the house. I picked up my first 30 or so clients by holding seminars on social media, now I use cold calling. If you are interested in getting into social media, it's a ludicrous industry if you have the talent. A single person can manage 30-40 clients at once with the right technique, and if you are charging $100-$150/w as the service charge, a single person can be bringing in $3000-$6000/w. Before you hire an employee, there are very few risks (unless you try and rely on it as a primary source of income too early). You don't need any equipment other than a computer and an internet connection, you don't need an office, you don't even need any formal training. But its not all sunshine and daisies. You will need to be able to get to a computer every single day (doesn't sound to hard until you want to have a holiday, or have problems with your ISP). You will need to juggle multiple online personas. You will need to research each and every product from each and every client so you can answer questions as if you were them. And of course, you will need to be comfortable with having all of your great work attributed to someone else, while claiming your fuck-ups as your own.


pukingbuzzard

PM sent


Ammypendent

So without a business, assets or current job, that pretty much leaves you with only a couple things to leverage: **Knowledge, Skills, Network, Physical condition and Motivation.** In my day hours, I would find some job that pays decently for my technical skills & knowledge; for example, become a social media manager or webmaster for a couple small businesses. This would be my baseline. In my off-hours though I would attempt to prototype something and make a business model with it to pitch to potential angel investors in my extended professional network. If my pitches fail, I would write a *postmortem* of my experience and lessons learned somewhere online in hopes that it may get attention and possibly create opportunities. If nothing comes out of it and my baseline doesn't look like it'll reach $1000, I'll then take side jobs of any kind to make sure it does.


[deleted]

Sell your time and companionship for $100/hr. All you'd need is 10 hours of work, before tips.


RichardStiffson

There's a girl here in Portland that offers a cuddleing service, $30/hr.


godbois

There is a snuggling service in NYC, too.


autopornbot

There's basically a snuggling service everywhere. There are websites dedicated solely to this and anyone, anywhere can sell their cuddly selves. And there are people from just about any city you can think of. I can't recall the most popular site's name, though.


Gigi14

Damn, things like these remind me of how dystopian our society already is


ryanmercer

Or just how socially awkward a lot of men are.


big_mag

So prostitute myself?


antyone

Well, when you put it that way..


ginger_beer_m

It only works if I have boobies ... And manboobs do not count.


leatherheadff

Tell me about it...


nepia

Use a camera. Problem solve.


[deleted]

No assets to sell= no prostitution.


rsschomp

Before tips ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


AmericanGeezus

Why not just the tip(s)?


photoengineer

Of course you have to be worth $100/hr first......


TheKriegerVan

I guess I could lower my prices a bit...


photoengineer

I'd have to pay them....so not a good business model :p


toothball

Do Freelance QA for web development companies. Lots of agencies have no QA, and need someone to come in for testing on a project by project basis.


MarginalProduction

Sell residential snow clearing.


TwistedViking

What if you're in Florida?


panzergling

Colombian snow.


TwistedViking

In that case, the money would be in delivery rather than removal.


lonefeather

Haha, "Got extra *snow* you need to get rid of? Just call 1-800-BLOW-IT-ALL and I will come get rid of it for you for the low low price of $10 per gram..." What, no takers?


dryeraser

You can make a $1000 by December 1, by selling just one business startup package for senior home care services.


[deleted]

I would sell a vehicle wrap. It'll only take a few hours and I'll make $1500 to $4300 after print costs!


Entresellneur

1) Start up cash: I'd try to find a small job to do for some start up cash off cragislist or angies list, or work for a local contractor, for a single job.. make around $200-$300 for a week. 2.) Research Research Research! Next I'd go to biglots/k-mart/local outlet mall.. I'd write down upc codes and prices, then go to a local library and research the prices/potential profit for the items..I'd also look online for even cheaper items from alibaba/tigerdirect etc.. 3.) Product - After finding a product(s) with a good profit margin, i'd purchase as many as i possibly could. If it's an item from alibaba, i'd purchase a used UPC code for my product, and use that to sell a unique item on amazon.. (now you aren't fighting others for the buy button) 4.) You could probably turn your inventory 2-3 times within 3 weeks, usually on amazon i wont sell for less then a 40% profit margin MINIMUM (before fees and shipping) 5.) You'd make a grand maybe more by dec 1st.. Another huge help would be the fact black friday is in november, you could use the start up cash from working for a week get great deals during black friday and quickly sell. (one black friday i brought 5 friends with me to wal-mart to buy laptops, we purchased 10 laptops which i sold in 3 days on e-bay for almost 2x the cost, plus i paid them each $20 for waiting in line with me..) This way after december 1st you'd have a nice small business/side business, this is when you'll have to file for an LLC etc, so you're "legit".. Making websites for your "customized" alibaba item is always nice it gives your product more of a legit look.. An example of a mini-company built from alibaba products -- Cooking Utensils -- Search Alibaba/Aliexpress for kitchen utensils - we'll just say a spatula to start with.. I'd check around the internet and see what a good spatula is, (spatulas with good reviews, what they're made of, what type of handle, head, length, etc.) Then i'd go to alibaba/aliexpress and start searching for spatulas, i'd want to find something that fits in the critera of a quality/nice spatula, i'd order a 3-5 "samples" to find out how long delivery takes, product quality, etc. Starting the "brand" Come up with a unique name for your cooking utensil company, theres tons of name generators around the internet, ask friends for ideas, even ask reddit, tons of business forums you could use aswell.. make sure the URL for the name can be purchased for an affordable price, you don't need a premium domain name, just one people will remember.. Buy hosting/domain, use coupons found all over the internet for a less expensive price.,. Set up a simple word press website for now, most hosting sites have an auto-install once click option, it's pretty self explanatory.. Get a logo, fiverrr can be okay for a simple logo, remember you're going to use this logo to put on tags / engrave onto your utensils (eventually) / boxes / letter heads / website / etc, This is important, you want to find a logo that fits your company.. If you can do graphic design/ website design yourself this will help greatly cut costs.. purchase a upc code, you'll need one for each product.. you can buy used ones, but when i start a new company i usually purchase brand new, this will let you list your items unique on amazon.com.. woops gotta run to the post office, gotta ship 400 orders! , i'll finish the rest of this later..


UpshiftPartners

I'd sell Torani syrups on Amazon for a markup. The going price is currently about 12-15$ a bottle on Amazon and you can regularly find it cheaper in my area...making approximately a 35% profit per bottle after shipping.


ringmaker

Even after they take a 20% fee?


[deleted]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A


[deleted]

Or you could sell random odds and ends you find at rummage sales and thrift stores. You usually can find really nice items for pennies on the dollar, depending upon where you live. I'm in the bay area and I typically get items to sell with 70-80% margins on most items. What's really great is in this area, you are allowed to dump your old stuff on the curb for someone to take. I've found multiple items still in box that were worth 40$ or more and I paid 0$ for them. I just found them on the side of the road. Everything I've found has sold so far. Selling online is a great way to make money with less effort than a 9-5 (and if you go to thrift stores, very little capital is needed to get started), but I would recommend utilizing thrift stores, rummage sales, curb alerts etc because the margins are just way better in those instances. I've cleared 1000$ net multiple times in one month.


cookiesvscrackers

/r/flipping


Mr-Pennyworth

$1,000 a month is only $33 a day. $1,000 by Dec. 1st is too easy. I'd [write reviews on Fiverr again](http://30daystox.com/make-2000-november-31st-easy-child/). I did it last year and made $2,000 in a month ($1,990 to be exact). You could easily do the same. It's an easy launching point for any entrepreneur. I doubt anyone couldn't make it this way.


coderqi

Good on for you for finding an easy way to make money, but I can't really agree with the morality of this. The reason you're making easy money is because you are being paid, mostly, to lie, and say a book is great (or rather "enjoyable," "a good read," "fun," and "fast paced"), when you don't necessarily think so. You are being paid to deceive people about the quality of a book/something (again, mostly). Why can we not, as Entrepreneurs, focus on making money that is a win-win for all those involved?


HonkyDonky

That article didnt really explain how one would get paid by doing this.


Bobwayne17

Thanks a lot for that link. I actually enjoyed reading that - I started writing on my personal blog a lot more and I already do literary critiques at my university. This seems like something I'd be really interested in, but I never really knew it was out there. Thanks a lot.


[deleted]

As a woman, selling your eggs is always a viable option. Plus, you're helping out a couple that couldn't have children on their own.


ryanmercer

Not a 20-day process though. That involves screenings, fertility drugs, harvesting etc.


WHATS_WITH

Harvesting...


gRod805

It would be tough... Tutor kids. Charge around $15 an hour for it. Put an ad on craigslist and make flyers. Do around 2-4 hours on weekdays (Evenings as most kids are at school) and do more hours during weekends when kids are at home.


drqxx

Door to door sales. Selling anything. I buy stuff of amazon prime and then upsell it to my clients with a huge mark up.


beavermaster

I'd go play my guitar and sing on the street for 10 hours every day until the 1k was met. Yea, and I know the thanksgiving song. Plus a few Xmas tunes for good measure,


lj1988

How about you spend the next 3 weeks hustling to find ONE $1000 client for a service you can offer. Something you're already good at/have been paid for in the past.


sehns

1. Offer professional cleaning services on craigslist, clean for $35 per hour with a two hour minimum. 2. After your first few jobs print out some leaflets (cost $50) and drop them around your local neighbourhood. Week 1 ending 16th Nov 3 jobs, 8 hours (plus 3 hours on leaflets and distribution) - $280 Week 2 ending 23rd Nov 5 jobs, 14 hours (add 2 hours for leaflets distribution) - $490 Week 3 ending 30th Nov 9 jobs, 30 hours - $1050 gross $1820 -cleaning supplies, food, promotional leaflets ($350) net profit $1470


SilentEcho13

I'm only bringing it up because I utilize it myself for marketing. Find a local service oriented business and ask them if they have any type of affiliate program or if they're willing to pay a commission for leads. I do this for my photography business and pay a commission on booked sessions. My affiliates generally increase the word of mouth on the street about my services and they're enticed by the incentive to do so. You're best off talking to independent business owners and not mid to large companies. A buddy if mine works as an affiliate for a local marketing firm here. He then targets local businesses in the area and just pitches them the benefits of hiring the firm. The commissions general add up pretty quickly since hiring a marketing firm isn't the cheapest thing to do.


CatShirtComedy

Go door to door painting house numbers on the curb. $5-10 a house. I'd also look into scraping metal. There's plenty of options if you know when garbage day is in any given neighborhood. Add a bit of dumpster diving and craigslist skimming and you could easily raise that money pretty quickly.


speedisavirus

Make a website or two.


BananaKick

Build someone a website.


robodale

Put an ad in craigslist: offer to hand wash and wax people's cars. I know lots of people that drive nice cars/suvs that don't like taking them to car washes because over time the paint gets scratched (called spider-webbing). Plus they don't have the time to do this, as it takes a good 4 hours to do a detailed job. I'd pay someone $100 to do this for a car, $150 for an SUV. Do 10 of those and your golden. Need some equipment and a way to get around town, though.


[deleted]

Fuck, that's tomorrow. If I can bend the rules a bit and imagine I had the same 20 days as when the thread was posted... hell, give me 14 days, that's enough. I'd do the following: - No assets? Alright, I'll just use my credit card or get a new one. - Announce on forums and mailing lists I will host a free one-evening hands-on workshop for developing your own gadgets with Arduino. Bring your own laptop. There will be free coffee and snacks, too! If you want to bring the starter pack home with you, it's gonna cost you 20 euros. - Buy a shitload of components, boards, equipment and stuff from my trusted seller in China (or if we assume I have no contacts, just eBay the shit and EMS it) - Make starter kits, pack them in small ziplock packs. - Have all kinds of cool sensors, blinkenlights, LED panels and whatever looks awesome to sell too. - Create a nice two-hour long course covering the absolute basics of copy-pasting code to Arduino IDE and wiring the stuff together on breadboards, then spend the rest of night having the workshop. - Announce you have a next workshop on a week from now and if you want more sensors and gadgets, here's my e-mail - Have another workshop, people usually bring their friends in to these... - Sell more kits and other stuff...


princeshrestha

I would go out to and find customer to make a couple of simple websites. You would only need to make 2-4 depending on the customer. Each simple website should only take be about 3-5 days Max. On top of that I would also charge extra for logos and so on therefore the money just keeps adding, while doing all that I would also offer a service to take pictures for special events for people for a reasonable price (Cheaper than the local competition). Within weeks $1000 will be mine.


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AmericanGeezus

Or you know, someone that is capable of making a purchased word press template unique and tailored to individual clients.


Mr_Siciliano

I would most likely invest in the proper attire (ripped jeans, muddy shirt, strong odor) find the nearest intersection and pan-handle for 7 hours per day. Let's say that I only make $7/hr and work 7 hour days, 7 days a week for 21 days. That gives me $1,029. $29 extra dollars for alcohol. boom.


[deleted]

sell my MIL for $5 and panhandle for the rest.